•Maggie Steinberg
SPONSOR: Dr. Charles Modlin, Kidney Transplant
Surgeon and Director of the Minority Men’s Health
Center, Cleveland Clinic
Blame it on Shaker High’s AP Biology class. “After I took that class, I
became really interested in science,” says Maggie Steinberg, now a
freshman at Haverford College.
So, when it came time to decide on a Senior Project last fall,
the opportunity to explore the medical profession, specifically
surgery, seemed like just the ticket. “I wanted to be hands-on,”
Steinberg says.
That led her to Dr. Charles Modlin, a Shaker resident and
kidney transplant surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. “I got to
be with him every day through his daily routine,” explains
Steinberg. That included the operating room.
PROJECT
“I watched a whole kidney transplant, which was about five
hours, and then I got to be in the post-op meetings with that
patient. It was amazing to see how much the surgery improved
SENIOR the patient’s life,” recalls Steinberg.
But for Modlin, who’s also a Shaker Schools parent, the
High School’s Senior Project is a two-way street. “I learn from
the students, too,” he explains. In particular, Modlin turned to
Steinberg for help with social media.
More than a decade ago, Modlin founded the Minority
Men’s Health Center at the Clinic’s Glickman Urological & Kidney
Institute to help address the ongoing health-care disparities
affecting minority males. “A lot of times it’s difficult for healthcare
providers to reach our minority populations,” explains
Modlin. “Maggie was able to help me use social media to get
information out about my program.”
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Making a one-hour movie about the history of Rome turned out to be harder
work than anticipated, but the result was worth the effort. Teacher Nora
Murphy plans to use the film to help educate her Latin students this year. The
film crew, from left: Zach Hofstetter, Colin Yule, Zane Eisen, and Ezra Zigmond.
•Zane Eisen, Zach Hofstetter,
Colin Yule, and Ezra Zigmond
SPONSOR: Nora Murphy, Latin teacher, Shaker High
Remember what Julius Caesar so famously said? “We came. We
saw. We made a movie.”
Well, maybe those weren’t the Roman general’s exact
words. But that is just what Zane Eisen, Zach Hofstetter, Ezra
Zigmond, and Colin Yule did for their collaborative Senior
Project. They made a movie. In Latin. And it covers about 700
years of Roman history.
“We got the idea from a TED Talk,” explains Zigmond.
“There’s a school in California and their curriculum – students
write and film movies in Latin – is basically this project,” says Yule.
While movies are generally not encouraged for Senior
Project, the fact that this one would serve as curriculum
material for the High School’s lower-level Latin classes won it
the green light, explains Nora Murphy, who teaches Latin at
the High School.
Maggie Steinberg became hooked on science after taking AP Biology at
Shaker. She was able to pursue that passion by shadowing Dr. Charles Modlin,
Kidney Transplant Surgeon at The Cleveland Clinic. In return, Steinberg helped
Modlin improve his outreach to minority patients via social media.